Guild Wars 2

Ok, I loose 500 gems.
I bought in my virtual life 4 black lion chest key 3 of this in the last 6 months or less becouse i woulded like find the black lion clam ticket scrap, but what i found is this unusefull things:
-Celebration Booster
-Custom arena time tokend
-Crafting materials tier 4
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR……………..
Just a advice don’t loose your money in black lion chest key

It is always much more efficient just to buy the skins. And typically a lot cheaper too. BL keys are gambling. In the end the house always wins.

Don’t use gems? Well known that there is a ton of crap to useful in the chests. Farm the keys via story at level ten, delete toon, repeat.

Yeah Kronos is true maybe with 500 gems converted in gold now i should be more near to the skin that i would like buy.

Sorry you had to figure this out the hard way. It’s a gamble, so don’t put money (real or in-game) on this. If you like to open these chests, just get the keys from playing the lvl 10 personal story on your alts.

A hard lesson to learn, but such is the way with RNG.

Oh no, someone spent money on RNG and didn’t win the jackpot. This is intolerable.

Sorel and Yargesh, i didn’t know that you could do somethings like this.
Now i’m asking to my self, Anet for sure know this sistem and they prefer people that do this than help people that buying the black lion chest key (I in some way have support the game)? Anyway if the Anet think in this way i’ll do the same. From today i’ll never buy again a key just i’ll create a charter from 1 to 10 and i’ll take the key.
Tnx for the advice and sorry for my English.

For one thing, the chance of getting an intact ticket is very low. To get 10 scraps, OP would have had to buy much more than 4 keys. I don’t know what the drop rate is now, but it used to average 50 keys to get 10 scraps.

If OP had bought the gems with gold, 500 gems is about 84 gold. If he bought 800 gems for $10 and had used the 500 gems to buy gold instead, the 500 gems would have gotten you almost 61 gold. Most of the current Shadow skins are in the low 80s. So he could have either bought a skin outright or gotten most of the price with 500 gems.

I have no idea who they expect to buy these keys except the rich or those who don’t know the odds. I farm my keys and get the tickets that way.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I have no idea who they expect to buy these keys except the rich or those who don’t know the odds. I farm my keys and get the tickets that way.

We would have to know a historic research, but back in the days were the gems were very cheap, some very demanded skins could have been cheaper to acquire by buying keys. Most of the items you find on the gemstore now are overpriced (when bought for gold), because of the inflation in the gold-to-gem exchange.

Sorel.4870:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I have no idea who they expect to buy these keys except the rich or those who don’t know the odds. I farm my keys and get the tickets that way.

We would have to know a historic research, but back in the days were the gems were very cheap, some very demanded skins could have been cheaper to acquire by buying keys. Most of the items you find on the gemstore now are overpriced (when bought for gold), because of the inflation in the gold-to-gem exchange.

It’s offset by gold being easier to get though. At launch, it took me a long time, 2 or 3 weeks, before my bank got its very first gold. I bought an alt account a month ago and it’s been regularly sending my main account one or two gold at a time and I don’t even play it very much. In comparison, if I had played my main account that much back then it would have been at a few silver at one month old.

So you can’t compare prices back then to prices now on a one to one basis.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Sorel.4870:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I have no idea who they expect to buy these keys except the rich or those who don’t know the odds. I farm my keys and get the tickets that way.

We would have to know a historic research, but back in the days were the gems were very cheap, some very demanded skins could have been cheaper to acquire by buying keys. Most of the items you find on the gemstore now are overpriced (when bought for gold), because of the inflation in the gold-to-gem exchange.

It’s offset by gold being easier to get though. At launch, it took me a long time, 2 or 3 weeks, before my bank got its very first gold. I bought an alt account a month ago and it’s been regularly sending my main account one or two gold at a time and I don’t even play it very much. In comparison, if I had played my main account that much back then it would have been at a few silver at one month old.

So you can’t compare prices back then to prices now on a one to one basis.

It’s linked. Gold is more abundant now, that’s one of the reason the gem price got so high. The problem is also that the wealth inequalities have increased. Between PvE and WvW players, for example (the Silverwates is a very lucrative farm, while no substantial reward was added to WvW, if EotM is considered PvE). And above all between farmers and casuals. By as I’m typing this, I realize I’m speaking about the macroeconomy of a MMORPG, and wondering about what I’m doing with my life.

Sorel.4870:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Sorel.4870:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I have no idea who they expect to buy these keys except the rich or those who don’t know the odds. I farm my keys and get the tickets that way.

We would have to know a historic research, but back in the days were the gems were very cheap, some very demanded skins could have been cheaper to acquire by buying keys. Most of the items you find on the gemstore now are overpriced (when bought for gold), because of the inflation in the gold-to-gem exchange.

It’s offset by gold being easier to get though. At launch, it took me a long time, 2 or 3 weeks, before my bank got its very first gold. I bought an alt account a month ago and it’s been regularly sending my main account one or two gold at a time and I don’t even play it very much. In comparison, if I had played my main account that much back then it would have been at a few silver at one month old.

So you can’t compare prices back then to prices now on a one to one basis.

It’s linked. Gold is more abundant now, that’s one of the reason the gem price got so high. The problem is also that the wealth inequalities have increased. Between PvE and WvW players, for example (the Silverwates is a very lucrative farm, while no substantial reward was added to WvW, if EotM is considered PvE). And above all between farmers and casuals. By as I’m typing this, I realize I’m speaking about the macroeconomy of a MMORPG, and wondering about what I’m doing with my life.

Go farm keys! That what you should be doing with your life to give it true meaning and something to tell your grandkids later. Lol.

The scrap drop rate has markedly improved, or so it seems. I’ve opened about 14 chests in the past day and gotten two scraps per chest in five of those attempts. This is anecdotal until we get some larger studies—unfortunately there was a vid of someone opening a few hundred chests not too long ago, but it was prior to the update on the drop rate.

Prototypemind.4026:

The scrap drop rate has markedly improved, or so it seems. I’ve opened about 14 chests in the past day and gotten two scraps per chest in five of those attempts. This is anecdotal until we get some larger studies—unfortunately there was a vid of someone opening a few hundred chests not too long ago, but it was prior to the update on the drop rate.

There was a reddit post shortly after the update where someone opened 250 chests. He claimed to have gotten 151 scraps, a 60% drop rate where the previous drop rate was, according to wiki, about 29%. (Though I’ve also heard it was about 34%).

Results of opening 250 Black Lion chest after the 31 March update.

I’ve opened 6 more chests since my earlier post with 7 scraps total